MOST tourists only go to Marinduque during Holy Week to experience the Philippines’ biggest Lenten festival, the Moriones. This is the time when all the ferries and buses going to Marinduque are all fully booked months in advance.
But for the rest of the year, this island province at the center of the Philippine archipelago remains quiet. The province is simply way off the tourist trail. Besides the Moriones festival and the island resort of Bellarocca, nothing much is known about the other attractions of Marinduque.